Spring boot cannot find index.html under webapp folder

Question

I read the following documentation from spring.io and it said By default Spring Boot will serve static content from a directory called /static (or /public or /resource

Answer 1

@RestController
public class IndexController {

    @RequestMapping("/")
    public String index(){
        System.out.println("Looking in the index controller.........");
        return "index";
    }

}

Problem is here, you are using @RestController, so in this case, if you write "return 'index';" spring boot covers it as just string answer. You need use @Controller annotation instead.